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authorAlex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>2022-02-06 16:29:47 -0600
committerMathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>2022-09-24 14:49:09 +0200
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system: image: Add tarball support.
* gnu/image.scm (<image>)[fields]: Add tarball to the supported formats.
* gnu/system/image.scm (tarball-image, tarball-image-type): New variables.
(system-tarball-image): New procedure.
(image->root-file-system): Add tarball image support.
(system-image): Ditto.
* doc/guix.texi ("System Images"): Document it.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
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@@ -41474,6 +41474,8 @@ one or multiple partitions.
 
 @item @code{iso9660}, an ISO-9660 image.
 
+@item @code{tarball}, a tar.gz image archive.
+
 @end itemize
 
 @item @code{platform} (default: @code{#false})